Tree Quotes - Page 23

Take a lesson from the trees, watch the way they bend with each breeze, little victories.

No matter where its seed fell, it made a tree which struggled to reach the sky. It grew in boarded-up lots and out of neglected rubbish heaps, and it was the only tree that grew out of cement. It grew lushly, but only in the tenements districts.... That was the kind of tree it was. It liked poor people.

What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?

I take everything I learned from the streets and put it in my NBA game.

A man does not plant a tree for himself; he plants it for posterity.

And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.

When the Lord starts out to make an oak tree, he takes a hundred years to do it in, but he can make a pumpkin in 90 days. More or less life is like that. We must choose whether we desire to become and oak tree or a pumpkin.

Oak trees come out of acorns, no matter how unlikely that seems. An acorn is just a tree's way back into the ground. For another try. Another trip through. One life for another.

This place of mine never is entered by humans come for conversation, only by the mute moon's light shafts that slip in between the trees.

There is money to be made in the market place, but under the cherry tree there is rest.

The leaf of every tree brings a message from the unseen world. Look, every falling leaf is a blessing.

We could not become like God, so God became like us. God showed us how to heal instead of kill, how to mend instead of destroy, how to love instead of hate, how to live instead of long for more. When we nailed God to a tree, God forgave. And when we buried God in the ground. God got up.

A street that you have never visited is a book that you have never read! You never know what you are missing!

On pavements and the bark of trees I have found whole worlds.

It often runs in families," she remarked: "just as a love for pastry does.

The heart's affections are divided like the branches of the cedar tree; if the tree loses one strong branch; it will suffer but it does not die; it will pour all its vitality into the next branch so that it will grow and fill the empty place.

The thing that distinguishes social systems from physical or even biological systems is their incomparable (and embarrassing) richness in special cases. Generalizations in the social sciences are mere pathways which lead through a riotous forest of individual trees, each a species unto itself. The social scientist who loses this sense of the essential individuality and uniqueness of each case is all too likely to make a solemn scientific ass of himself, especially if he thinks that his faceless generalizations are the equivalents of the rich vareity of the world.

The seed of a tree has the nature of a branch or twig or bud. It is a part of the tree, but if separated and set in the earth to be better nourished, the embryo or young tree contained in it takes root and grows into a new tree.

I wish people were all trees and I think I could enjoy them then.

God in the whizzing of a pleasant wind Shall march upon the tops of mulberry trees.

The Backstreet Boys....they really do have good music!

It is people's movement that consoles us. If the leaves of a tree did not move, how sad would be the tree - and so should we.

Just because you may not see this big, grand show or you may not fall down a tree and all of a sudden get miraculously healed, that doesn't mean the miraculous isn't all around you.

A large oak tree is just a little nut that refused to give up.

Playing Augusta is like playing a Salvador Dali landscape. I expected a clock to fall out of the trees and hit me in the face.